The 2015 Nobel Laureates are now arriving in Stockholm for an eventful Nobel Week – culminating in the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony and the Nobel Banquet on December 10, where we celebrate the Laureates and their contributions to the greatest benefit of mankind. The entire week will be framed by Your Star, a public art work by artist Olafur Eliasson. Culinary innovators Sayan Isaksson and Daniel Roos have created this year’s Nobel menu, while Anna Ternheim and Seinabo Sey together with the Gustav Sjökvist Chamber Choir will be in charge of the “divertissement” at the Nobel Banquet.
The Nobel Week leads to inspiring and sometimes unexpected encounters. What actually happens at the interface between art and science? What are the outcomes of meetings between disciplines, or of dialogues between knowledgeable experts and curious students? These questions are at the centre of this year’s Nobel Week.
The Laureates will begin their stay in Stockholm on December 6 with a visit to the Nobel Museum, followed by press conferences and Nobel Lectures under the auspices of the prize-awarding institutions: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and the Swedish Academy. During the Nobel Week, a number of Laureates will visit schools, where – just like students and teachers – they will experience inspiring and much-appreciated encounters.
One of today’s most celebrated conductors, Franz Welser-Möst, will perform at the Nobel Prize Concert on December 8. This year’s soloist is the young Daniil Trifonov, now one of the world’s most sought-after pianists.
On the Nobel Day, December 10, Anna-Maria Helsing will be the first female conductor ever to lead the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at a Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. This year’s soloist is tenor Daniel Johansson.
This year’s Nobel menu was composed by chef Sayan Isaksson and confectioner Daniel Roos, both of them celebrated Swedish culinary innovators. Sayan Isaksson operates the Shibumi and Råkultur restaurants as well as the Michelin-starred Esperanto. Daniel Roos, who is in charge of the Banquet dessert for the second consecutive year, is a restaurateur and pastry chef at the K-märkt restaurant in Stockholm and runs the company Pastry Design. The menu highlights local ingredients from Scandinavia, and according to Sayan Isaksson it was developed with sustainability in mind and with a consistent focus on vegetables. While Sayan strives for elegance in the dishes, he works according to the principle of making the most efficient use of the ingredients as possible throughout the preparation process. The advisors Fredrik Eriksson and Gert Klötzke, as well as Gunnar Eriksson, Chef de Cuisine at Stadshusrestauranger (City Hall Restaurants).
Like the menu, the contents of the Nobel Banquet’s entertainment are kept secret until the Nobel Day. But we can reveal that the overall theme of this year’s divertissement is an homage to Swedish music in modern times. Its four acts will take us on a journey from the past to the present and into the future. We will meet Swedish music creators who have helped shape the international popular music scene over the past four decades. With their music, they have crossed borders, reached out and inspired people worldwide. Appearing during the evening will be the Gustav Sjökvist Chamber Choir as well as Anna Ternheim and Seinabo Sey. The Gustav Sjökvist Chamber Choir is one of Sweden’s best-known choirs and has toured internationally, often with contemporary music in its repertoire. With their strong and unique voices, Anna Ternheim and Seinabo Sey are highly acclaimed artists both in Sweden and abroad.
The evening’s entertainment was produced by Grumpy Production, led by Mats Jankell and Pierre Rosengren.
For the first time, florist Per Benjamin will be in charge of floral decorations at the Stockholm City Hall – inspired by the round shape and complex colour spectra of the gold in the Nobel medal. Per won the World Cup for florists in 2002, and since then he has been active on the international scene.
Framing the 2015 Nobel Week will be Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s art work Your Star, is as an homage to this year’s Laureates and as an unexpected and inspiring surprise in the public space. The artist views Your Star as a point of connection around which to gather, discuss and reflect.
Your Star will shine above Riddarfjärden, the waterway outside the Stockholm City Hall, during the Nobel Week. Consisting of a LED lamp whose light comes from renewable energy collected during this year’s Midsummer holiday, Your Star will spread a bit of summer light in the winter darkness.
Olafur Eliasson will also participate in this year’s Nobel Week Dialogue, whose theme is The Future of Intelligence, in a conversation with May-Britt Moser, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, moderated by cosmologist Max Tegmark. Among the panellists will be six previous Nobel Laureates, and half of those attending will be students. The meeting will take place on December 9 in Gothenburg.
MORE INFORMATION
For more about the Nobel Week programme and contacts, see the document sub-titled Detailed Information for the Media.
FOLLOW THE NOBEL WEEK ON NOBELPRIZE.ORG
All Nobel Lectures will be webcast live on Nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Foundation, and they will later be available there in video-on-demand format.
The Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies in Oslo and Stockholm will be webcast live on Nobelprize.org at 13.00 and 16.30 CET, respectively, on DECEMBER 10.
PUBLICATION TIMES (CET)
Seating chart for the Table of Honour at the Nobel Banquet: DECEMBER 9, 10.00
Presentation speeches at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony: DECEMBER 10, 16.30
The menu for the Nobel Banquet: DECEMBER 10, 19.00
The Laureates’ speeches of thanks: DECEMBER 10, ABOUT 23.00